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To: Eric who wrote (61446)	12/2/2014 8:51:14 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 86355

The problem with photovoltaics is that they are black so they absorb a lot of light from the sun instead of reflecting it back to space as would happen if your roof was painted white instead of photovoltaic black. So we have global warming looming from the increasing black surfaces. I'm chuckling here Bud, at the Global Alarmists inadvertently heating the air when they thought they were being Green. If 7 billion people and their industries get all their electricity from photovoltaics, the heating will be huge. And worse, the heating will continue whether the electricity is wanted or not though presumably storage methods will be developed to absorb all the spare electricity at peak times. From a global warming perspective, it would be better to burn fossil fuels, which produce CO2 for improved crops but most of it is absorbed into oceans to feed algae there and the food chain, being deposited on the bottom of the ocean in vast sedimentary layers, kilometres thick when it gets to the subduction zones. Have you calculated the net global warming if everyone gets their energy from photovoltaics? Mqurice

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